Print Email Facebook Twitter WOCA A battery powered wound pump designed for use in low-resource settings Title WOCA A battery powered wound pump designed for use in low-resource settings Author Nicolai, Noa (External organisation) Diehl, J.C. (TU Delft Design for Sustainability) Raaijmakers, E.R.L. (Student TU Delft) Knulst, A.J. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) Maharjan, Suraj (External organisation) Date 2023 Abstract Vacuum-Assisted wound care (VAC) is effective for treating complex wounds, but is hardly available in low-resource settings. An affordable, portable and safe VAC device was developed to treat patients with chronic and complex wounds: the Wound Care (WOCA) Pump. The WOCA safely controls the pressure accurately (+/- 10%) between -70 and -125 mmHg for a total component cost of USD 150. In this research important steps were taken to make VAC therapy more accessible, affordable and safe for marginalised patients in low-resource settings. Next research will aim to assess its safe clinical use. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0461f27c-986a-4962-a674-9b8ba8db9f45 Embargo date 2023-10-30 Event Technical innovations in Medicine Congres 2023, 2023-04-21, Galgenwaard, Utrecht, Netherlands Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type poster Rights © 2023 Noa Nicolai, J.C. Diehl, E.R.L. Raaijmakers, A.J. Knulst, Suraj Maharjan Files PDF WOCATiiMCongresposter.pdf 42.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0461f27c-986a-4962-a674-9b8ba8db9f45/datastream/OBJ/view